An introduction to the art of Jasper Johns, highlighting three major themes to get you started appreciating his work. For more of my RU-vid videos on art subscribe to my channel or go to this website: johnimmerwahr.org/projects/
Video editing: Danny Debner, www.debner.net
Music: brysonkempmusic.com
Links to the museums for the exhibition (ends February 13, 2022)
Philadelphia Museum of Art: www.philamuseum.org
Whitney Museum of American Art: www.whitney.org
Recent books on Jasper Johns:
Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror, by Carlos Basualdo and Scott Rothkopf, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2021. This volume is the catalog for the joint retrospective exhibition, mentioned in the RU-vid, and has plates of most of the images that you saw in the RU-vid.
Roberta Bernstein, Jasper Johns: Redo an Eye, Yale University Press, 2017.
Jasper Johns images used in the RU-vid
Flag, 1954-55, Museum of Modern Art
Fool’s House, 1961-62, private collection
Painting with two Balls, 1960. This is currently in a private collection, but for many years it has been on permanent loan to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The museum anticipates that it may remain in the museum after the show is over.
0 through 9
oil on canvas, 1960, private collection
charcoal, pastel, graphite pencil, 1961 private collection
sculpture, 1966, Museum of Modern Art
charcoal and graphite pencil, 1965, private collection
Figures 0-9, Color Number Series Prints, private collection, 1969
Thomas Eakins works (all in the Philadelphia Museum of Art):
The Pair Oared Shell, 1876
Portraits:
The Oboe Player (Dr. Benjamin D. Sharp), 1903
Lucy Thomas, 1846
William B Kurtz,1903
Other works:
Pink Angels, Willem DeKooning, 1945,
Number 1A, Jackson Pollock, 1948, Museum of Modern Art
27 сен 2021
